aloha!
the natural language definition for Latin is "la", not "lt" as appears
in:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xframes-20051012
spanning the term: "per se"
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<p>This document defines a separate XML application, not a part of XHTML
<em
xml:lang="lt" lang="lt">per se</em>, that allows similar functionality to
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<p>This document defines a separate XML application, not a part of XHTML
<em
xml:lang="la" lang="la">per se</em>, that allows similar functionality to
"lt" is the natural language value for "Lithuanian"
note that i would not have recognized this error, had not my screen
reader, JAWS for Windows, which supports natural language switching,
reported the natural language switch defined for the term; however,
since its default text-to-speech engine supports neither Latin nor
Lithuanian, i was alerted to the fact that there was a string of
Lithuanian text; there is, by the way, an open source project to
provide support for Latin (ancient, medieval, and "new latin") in
text-to-speech engines.
gregory.
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lex parsimoniae:
* entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
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the law of succinctness:
* entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
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Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net
Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/
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